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The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics

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Description for The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics Paperback. An introduction to Indonesia s history, culture, and politics, which brings together more than 150 selections, including journalists articles, explorers chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, and speeches. Editor(s): Hellwig, Tineke; Tagliacozzo, Eric. Series: The World Readers. Num Pages: 488 pages, 46 photos, 2 tables, 1 map, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; GTB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 702.
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a larger Muslim population than any other. The Indonesia Reader is a unique introduction to this extraordinary country. Assembled for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the Reader includes more than 150 selections: journalists’ articles, explorers’ chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, speeches, and more. Many pieces are by Indonesians; some are translated into English for the first time. All have introductions by the volume’s editors. Well-known figures such as Indonesia’s acclaimed novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the American ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Series
The World Readers
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822344247
SKU
V9780822344247
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About Tineke Hellwig
Tineke Hellwig is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of In the Shadow of Change: Images of Women in Indonesian Literature and a co-editor of Asian Women: Interconnections. Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along ... Read more

Reviews for The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics
“Hellwig and Tagliacozzo . . . have collected a rich, engaging and broad array of sources which reveal Indonesia's distant past and this makes The Indonesia Reader of immense value to historians of all kinds.” - David Jansen, Contemporary Southeast Asia “[A]n extraordinary cornucopia of sources that illustrate some of the pivotal and unique moments in Indonesia’s life.” - Laura ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics


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